Touretteshero
@touretteshero
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A real life Tourettes superhero - changing the world one tic at a time. If I’ve just said it, you’ve just read it.
The Castle
Joined February 2010
RT @ALLFIEUK: FREE online workshops on Disability Justice! Designed by and for Disabled people. Session 1: Understand Activism with Rick B….
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RT @BLINK_Dance: Our bags are packed as we're heading to Shambala Festival tomorrow! Come and find us at Rebel Soul as part of two events p….
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RT @DisabledInTV: Are you deaf, disabled and/or neurodivergent? Are you tired of inaccessible networking events? Has your career in TV been….
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Our Practical Intervention fund's back! This time with a Mobility focus, we can't provide actual mobility aids but we have 8 great items we can gift to disabled people who aren't able to buy them. Simple application process, more here: closes 03/09/25.
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It’s been four years since we launched our Practical Intervention Fund (PIF). The fund enables disabled, deaf and neurodivergent people to experiment with different items which can support their...
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RT @AccessToWorkCol: We're hosting a free Access to Work Info Session. Fri 22 Aug, 3:30 pm – 5 pm on Zoom. From applying to appeals, we’ll….
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When it works properly & I can remember a time when it did #AccessToWork is liberating & transformative. I want to make it absolutely clear that disabled people are here to stay, that our lives, experiences, skills and imaginations matter & we are not disposable. 2/2.
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I've not been able to do my job for the last 3 months because of a DWP decision to cut my #AccessToWork support. This week I received a letter reinstating my support, while this is good news for me there are many others still affected by cuts & delays 1/2.
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A couple of weeks ago some colleagues and I gathered round a phone in the Touretteshero office to speak to my newly allocated caseworker from the Department for Work and Pensions about my Access to...
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RT @CRIPticArts: Are you a disabled facilitator interested in running a one off creative workshop? 🔥 . We want to know about anything creat….
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This opportunity is only open to deaf and disabled people. For more on what we mean by that, see our website Connect Through Creativity is a program of weekly workshops & activities using the arts to...
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RT @YorkDisability: Disabled people warn of brutal 'secret' cuts to DWP Access to Work support: "It's been horrific"
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DWP whistleblowers have reported Access to Work funding has been slashed by 60% to 70%, leaving disabled people struggling to stay in work.
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RT @TakingThePIP1: We stand with Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman, Chris Hinchliff, Rosena Allin Khan, Bell Ribeiro-Addy….
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RT @MikScarlet: At the end of my busy week I'm running an online session with @disabilityarts on using the political thinking around disabi….
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The importance of the social model in understanding disability pride and overcoming barriers. Our Right to Thrive is a unique poetry/written word project for disabled writers led by disabled artist/...
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RT @QueerlyAutistic: Rachael Maskell gave an emotional and impassioned speech that primarily centred on disabled being human beings who des….
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RT @johnpringdns: Minister ignored concerns from disabled advisers, months before publishing cuts bill.@StephenCTimms .#BinUCBill #DWP.http….
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A minister ignored concerns about proposed benefit cuts that were raised in a meeting by his own network of disability advisers, months before the government published its ill-fated universal credi…
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RT @cheryleehouston: We have less than 48hrs to let MPs know that we need to stop this bill. It creates a 2tier system of support in our c….
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RT @AccessToWorkCol: Today, we launch #AccessToNowhere - a campaign led by disabled people demanding urgent reform to Access to Work. Sign….
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RT @RosemaryFrazer: Labour has a Disability problem. I don't think many at a senior level realise that, it's hard for anyone to admit preju….
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RT @SamYovan: 🚨‼️We don’t trust a word you say. You’ve cut #AccessToWork while DECEIVING & BETRAYING #disabled people with a sham #Pathways….
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Fifteen years ago, I co-founded Touretteshero as a creative response to the increasing impact that my tics were having on my life. I also started writing this blog. Over the years I’ve tackled some...
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RT @johnpringdns: Chaotic events in parliament on Tuesday, and three months of activism since the publication of the Pathways to Work green….
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Disabled activists have called on the government to scrap its “dangerous” and “disastrous” disability benefits bill, despite forcing ministers into last-minute changes that scrapped all their plann…
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